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The Great

10-20-2007, 01:04 PM

Better than the opening scene of POC at worlds end.

if i am wrong prove it!

xAgonyxScenex

10-20-2007, 01:48 PM

i dont remember the opening scene in that movie =X

devonnewberry

10-20-2007, 02:01 PM

Yeah there is. I'll come back, let me brainstorm.

Simon

10-20-2007, 02:33 PM

Yeah there is. I'll come back, let me brainstorm.
Yep, plenty... Not that I even remember that poc one... But I'm too lazy to brainstorm ;)

TIMtationX

10-20-2007, 02:55 PM

Just off the top of my head, I think The Dawn of the Dead remake, and Saving Private Ryan openings are both way better than that one

OmarB

10-21-2007, 09:33 AM

Never seen those movies. I refuse to see a movie based on a ride and I'm not gonna change my opinion.

devonnewberry

10-21-2007, 11:16 AM

Just off the top of my head, I think The Dawn of the Dead remake, and Saving Private Ryan openings are both way better than that one

Oh agreed.

r-type

10-21-2007, 12:19 PM

Tim called some good ones with DoD and SPR.

Off the top of my head:

When Wesley rips $#!t up at the underground club in Blade.

Die Hard w/a Vengeance

Terminator 2

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

xXRavenXx

10-21-2007, 04:16 PM

Let me throw my hat into the ring by saying:

""Star Wars Episode: IV" GREATEST OPENING EVER!!! The main titles fade to the blockade runner getting chased by the Star Destroyer... Cutting to the opening of the first time we see Vader... I think we have all become too desensitized to the Star Wars films following the first three.
"Texas Chain Saw Massacre" (remake) The VW Rocks!
" Resevoir Dogs"

Bar-None... SW kicks the hell outta them all.

The first Pirates was very good. I like Depps entrance into the whole scene... that was nice:D

Devastator

10-23-2007, 09:08 AM

Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie

Ryu vs. Sagat as the credits begin. Nostalgic and excitement. If you haven't scene it its one of the best fights ever created. Be sure to see the uncut version.

BrettLee

10-23-2007, 10:40 AM

Never seen those movies. I refuse to see a movie based on a ride and I'm not gonna change my opinion.

thats just kind of silly, wither its based on a ride or not has nothing to do with its entertanment value as a film. And as a little side note the pirates movies where not origionally written as a ride spin off, that came later in the process linking it to the ride. As a matter of fact, that was one of the reasons it was called "Pirates of the carribean: Curse of the black pearl". They had "curse of the blck pearl" because there wasnt even a for sure that the movie would be made by disney for a very long time, and if it wasnt they would just drop the pirates title and clal it "Curse of the black pearl". The script started off as a "supernatural pirate movie" not a "movie about a ride"

nelson

10-23-2007, 10:55 AM

Better than the opening scene of POC at worlds end.

if i am wrong prove it!

"Touch of Evil" by Orsen Wells. No one has come close.

r-type

10-23-2007, 11:04 AM

"Touch of Evil" by Orsen Wells. No one has come close.Oh snap! Agreed, and in the days before steadicam. Sans the whole Heston as a mexican thing though. :p

xXRavenXx

10-23-2007, 12:10 PM

"Touch of Evil" by Orsen Wells. No one has come close.

O holy hell I forgot about that! Cine was great! On that note I'm gonna go back through my dvds.

TIMtationX

10-27-2007, 04:26 PM

Never seen those movies. I refuse to see a movie based on a ride and I'm not gonna change my opinion.

...But seeing a movie based on a line of toys, that's perfectly fine i guess ;)

I'M TOM LINCOLN

10-28-2007, 02:51 PM

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK!!! Giant freakin' ball!!!

Hmm, that's a significantly less eloquent response than I normally try to give.

ClaytonMG

10-29-2007, 02:53 PM

Oh I totally got this one:

Disturbia (Totally shocking, plus I love when they wait to show the title of the movie until after something terrible happens)
Arlington Road (Another shocker)
Armageddon (Come on, it's MichaelBay.com, I need a Michael Bay movie up here!)
Bad Boys (the score rocks!)
Backdraft (same reason as Disturbia)
Batman Forever (the logos are cool... to bad the movie brings tears to my eyes, and not in the good way)
Enemy of the State (another exciting way to open the movie)
The Fan (Beat Zimmer's score to that one... holy crap it's good)
Face/Off (Yet another disturbing opening)

The Great

10-30-2007, 03:39 PM

The Great

10-30-2007, 03:42 PM

"Touch of Evil" by Orsen Wells. No one has come close.I just downloaded that movie. I have the version where there is some kind of message about how orsen wells reequested that the movie follow a certain visual style. Do you know of this one and is it the best version to have?

xAgonyxScenex

10-30-2007, 07:50 PM

Never seen those movies. I refuse to see a movie based on a ride and I'm not gonna change my opinion.

lol wow...talk about stubborn...and silly...and kinda sad. Were you the kid in high school that didn't listen to popular music because it was popular?

The Great

10-31-2007, 03:23 PM

Check out:

http://www.filmsite.org/touc.html

Here is but a snippet from there:

The version of the film that was released in 1958 with 93 minutes of running time (later revised and restored with 15 minutes of additional scenes in 1976), was disowned by director Welles, who was paid $125,000 to direct, re-write, and star in the film. Before its release by Universal International Pictures, some scenes were reshot, and the film was edited, cut and bastardized without his full approval, while he was out of town working on another project.

In 1998, the film was re-edited and/or restored based upon creator Welles' original, newly-discovered 58 page memo of editing instructions to Universal International boss Ed Muhl. The new version did not contain new footage, but was a reconstructed "quasi-director's cut" with re-organized, cross-cut scenes (with a total of about 50 changes). The most impressive change was that the legendary opening shot (described below) was seen without obscuring, super-imposed credits, and the blaring, distracting Henry Mancini background music during the elaborate scene was stripped away and replaced by natural source music (from doorways of dives the couple passes, or from car radios). The credits were re-positioned at the end of the sequence. Other changes included: repaired torn shots, restored sound quality, excisement of "explanatory scenes" added by the studio, re-positioning and trimming of scenes, and restoration of originally-cut footage. The re-edited version, the fourth version of the film, now runs 111 minutes (compared to 93 minutes in the earliest version).

The film opens with its most famous sequence. It's an audacious, incredible, breathtaking, three-minute, uninterrupted crane tracking shot under the credits (appearing superimposed on the left of the screen). The entire tracking shot covers four blocks from start to finish. In a close-up, hands set an explosive, timed device. A shadowy figure runs and places it in the trunk of a parked convertible. The pounding of bongo drums and blare of brass instruments are heard (Henry Mancini's score), accompanied by the ticking-tocking of the mechanism on the soundtrack. The camera pulls away sharply, identifying the car's location - it is parked on a street in a seedy Mexican border town. An unsuspecting, wealthy American man - Rudi Linnekar (the boss of the town) and his giggling, blonde floozy, mistress/girlfriend [later, we learn she is a striptease dancer named Zita] emerge out of the background darkness and get into the car, driving off through the streets toward the US-Mexican border about four blocks away.
thank you beej but are they saying the legendary scene was from the orginal or the newer more orsen wells edit?

r-type

10-31-2007, 05:34 PM

It was meant to be toungue-in-cheek Beej.

uraydo

10-31-2007, 07:15 PM

At World's End did have an awesome opening.... the ending was confusing as hell.

CJP

10-31-2007, 09:56 PM

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country /
The opening blast then...
You see Sulu as a Captain and then the blast wave hits him.

You know, Travolta's lines in the very start of Swordfish. Bad movie though.

Casino Royale, the latest one. Let's you know your in for something really good.

Hunt For Red October / Pulling back to see the man on that Typhoon was great.

Heat / The whole opening and first heist.

Terminator 2 / Future War and opening credits.

Transformers / Peter Cullen's Intro

All I can think up right now.

The Great

10-31-2007, 09:58 PM

At World's End did have an awesome opening.... the ending was confusing as hell.
how so my friend?

r-type

10-31-2007, 10:13 PM

At World's End did have an awesome opening.... the ending was confusing as hell. If by confusing you mean pure suck, then I agree.

uraydo

10-31-2007, 11:15 PM

how so my friend?
Why didn't Elisabeth go with Will? Was there a rule that stated women couldn't crew the Flying Dutchman? If so, when was it stated?

this is how the movie should have ended.

Will: Come, and sail with me across this world and the next, for all eternity.

Elizabeth: well, I did marry you, and spend three movies trying to be with you.... so, okay. Sounds good.

Will: That's awesome! That totally beats the Hell out of only getting to screw every ten years.... also, I don't have to look for someone else to screw after you get all old and unscrewable.

I guess you could say she wasn't "dead or dieing," but that is easily remedied. Besides those guys in the second movie that joined Jones seemed more terrified rather than "dieing."

uraydo

11-01-2007, 07:37 PM

But if she were dead or dying... then she couldn't have junior... and somehow thinking junior perhaps be part of the the set up for the next movie. You say that, like "junior" is part of there master plan to take over the world. sorry, I don't by that.

uraydo

11-01-2007, 09:30 PM

Really? How come? Expand on that -- do you "know" something? Spill.

I'm just saying what I have always said. I don't see why Elisabeth did not go with Will.